Multiple emails show the NT Labor Caucus and Cabinet fear a 2020 election loss following the revelation of the dire state of the budget, with MLA Ken Vowles saying if the jurisdiction was a private business "it would be trading insolvent".

NT Beverages, which received $10 million of taxpayers' money from an infrastructure fund that has since been abolished, was granted a water extraction licence just hours before entering into voluntary administration.

Mass protests of the scale held during the Vietnam War are just around the corner for people concerned about climate change, environmentalists have warned, as a growing number of activists turn their attention to those who fund fossil fuel industries.

Northern Australia is soaked by monsoonal rains each year and has more water than residents know what to do with. But just how plausible is the idea of pumping its excess water to ease the dry soils of pastoral properties in Queensland, NSW, and Western Australia?

The controversial McArthur River Mine operation is once again in the spotlight after former workers say they regularly witnessed barges spill lead-zinc concentrate into the sea while transferring it to export ships in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The Australian delegation at the UN climate conference in Poland is juggling its Paris agreement obligations and its support for fossil fuels. Meanwhile, nations remain deadlocked on how to implement the Paris agreement.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issues a red alert for coral bleaching off the Northern Australia coast, due to forecast above-average sea surface temperatures that could last for up to two months.

Darwin shipping company Conlon Murphy, whose workplace practices posed an "obvious risk of death", is fined $190,000 after a deckhand lost his grip and drowned, leaving his distraught partner "living a life sentence".

The tropical cyclone is currently on the north-east Northern Territory coast between Port Roper and Port McArthur, just west of Bing Bong, and may reach category four intensity before crossing the Queensland coast tomorrow.

An "obviously drunk" woman who had eight beers in just over an hour at a notorious drinking spot in Alice Springs and was not told to leave the bar until police intervened prompts a review uncovering "disturbing" evidence about the tavern's normal operations.